A man, believed to be in his fifties, sustained critical injuries when he fell approximately eight meters through a roof at a construction site near Sunninghill this afternoon.
Shortly after 12 pm, paramedics from ER24 arrived at the site in Barbeque Downs where they found the man lying on a concrete floor. He had sustained multiple fractures and possible internal injuries. Paramedics stabilised him on the scene and later rushed him to a nearby hospital for further medical treatment.
The exact circumstances surrounding the incident is not yet known.
Werner Vermaak
Communications Office
Corporate Communications
ER24
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